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[12 June 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.

[12 June 1846]. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.

Friday morning.
I must write very little today, dearest, because Mr Kenyon, as a note from him just tells me, comes at half past two for me, & in the meantime I am expecting a visit from my uncle Hedley, who arrived yesterday while we were together. Scarcely could Henrietta keep him, she says, from coming up stairs “to see Ba”! We just escaped, therefore. I have been thinking that having the barbarians down on us, may be at least a means of preserving us from going into the wilderness ourselves .. myself .. if I were taken away as I told you, to Tunbridge, Dover, or other provinces of Siberia. How should I bear, do you think, to be taken away from you? Very badly!-though you will not hear of my being able to love you as I ought--when that is precisely the only thing I can do, it seems to me, at all worthily of you.
Ora pro me in Mr Kenyon’s carriage to-day- I

Friday morning.
I must write very little today, dearest, because Mr Kenyon, as a note from him just tells me, comes at half past two for me, & in the meantime I am expecting a visit from my uncle Hedley, who arrived yesterday while we were together. Scarcely could Henrietta keep him, she says, from coming up stairs “to see Ba”! We just escaped, therefore. I have been thinking that having the barbarians down on us, may be at least a means of preserving us from going into the wilderness ourselves .. myself .. if I were taken away as I told you, to Tunbridge, Dover, or other provinces of Siberia. How should I bear, do you think, to be taken away from you? Very badly!-though you will not hear of my being able to love you as I ought--when that is precisely the only thing I can do, it seems to me, at all worthily of you.
Ora pro me in Mr Kenyon’s carriage to-day- I